Originally posted at Patheos No Longer Quivering March 7, 2017 Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer Today’s chapter of Lori Alexander’s book is called “Talking About Your Financial Health” It makes me sad. I’m mostly sad with it because of two reasons. First, there’s a tremendous opportunity here to give good advice that could ease peoples financial…
Last year I had a very disconcerting episode. Spring of 2022 we’d gone to stay at our favorite hotel in La Fortuna, Costa Rica, the Arenal Falls Lodge. It used to be the Green Lagoon Heath and Wellness Retreat, sitting near the hiking trails up to the Cerro Chatto, a dead volcano cone filled with…
I know, I know Etouffee is not bitter, but it’s the only thing sitting in my photos right now, sorry! “People cannot trust Christ if they are completely broken by Church leadership” “Brokenness is a blessing and a curse at the same time. It hurts, it’s not our natural state, but it’s where the marvelous…
https://withstrangefire.com/sometimes-the-good-fight-is-utterly-exhausting/(opens in a new tab) See this guy? He’s old, so sick, exhausted and old. His spines flop about, his skin shows the evidence of many difficult battles. He visits daily now, coming to drink the water in our swimming pool, graze on plants and then raiding the star fruit trees. He let me get…
One of the absolutely horrific things that happened once my aunts started carrying on like a demented Greek chorus about my mother is that memories flooded back into my brain. Things I hadn’t thought about for many a long year. Like about my bike. I cannot remember if I was eight or nine the year…
See the above picture? Grapefruit are rare here, and I have a grapefruit tree sheltering the picture window in my bedroom. I never know each year if there will be fruit. I took that photo almost exactly a year ago. Today there’s zero fruit on the tree. We had a longer very intense rainy season…
Originally published on September 14, 2018 at No Longer Quivering Patheos. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer So that might be an exaggeration, but not by much. Women in Quiverfull are taught and practice that going to the doctor or hospital is evil idolatry. If you are sick just throw some Black Salve on it, pray harder,…
I haven’t been around since I set up the site. First I had to make an emergency trip to my family of origin followed by health issues. So busy. My apologies. One of the Christian songs that has meant the most to me over the past few years is one by For King & Country…
Originally published on January 25, 2018 at No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer Right now the news media is focused on the family of David and Louise Turpin of Perris, California, focusing a bright light on the dangers of hiding abuse by homeschooling. But we know that soon enough another scandal will come along…
Originally published November 15, 2018 at No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer. This is one of the more toxic lies in Quiverfull, that your feelings are a lie. But it is one that the female cultural enforcers like Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies push the hardest. Why? Because if you can disassociate enough to…